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Posted on 02/20/2025 4:07:14 PM PST by Libloather
The White House has assured the public it’s snot a permanent change.
President Trump ordered the iconic Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office for refurbishment after Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son, X, appeared to pick his nose and rub the desk on live TV last week.
The young Musk scion and budding nasal archaeologist, whose full name is X Æ A-12, fidgeted, babbled and, at times, wandered around when he appeared in the Oval Office with his father and Trump during a joint Q&A session about the work of Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
At one point the tot — whose mom is pop star Grimes — wiggled his finger around in his nostril and then seemingly wiped the resulting bounty on the famous desk, first used by John F. Kennedy in 1961 and later used by presidents including Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden during their time in office.
Trump, a known germaphobe, revealed in a Truth Social post Thursday that the Resolute Desk had been temporarily replaced with the C&O desk, one of six available to the sitting president.
“This desk, the ‘C&O,’ which is also very well-known and was used by President George H.W. Bush and others, has been temporarily installed in the White House while the Resolute Desk is being lightly refinished—a very important job,” Trump wrote.
“This is a beautiful, but temporary replacement!”
C&O is short for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and was initially built for that company’s owners. It was initially used in the Oval Office Study in 1975 before rail company GSX donated it to the White House in 1987.
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What kind of a name is that?
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Trump swaps out Resolute Desk in the Oval Office days after Elon Musk’s son X appeared to wipe booger on it, grobdriver wrote: Really struggling to believe this story.
Nothing a paper towel and surface cleaner couldn’t handle.The left really didn't like Musk's child being present and I think they are 'spinning' standard cleaning post Deep State Presidency to blame the child.
like my third grade school desk + the bubble gum
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I thought little X was fairly well-behaved for a boy of his age and for that amount of time as well. Not easy for a 4 year old boy to exercise self-restraint for that long !
When I watched that interview, I got the impression that PDJT was quite irritated with the kid being there and disrupting an important meeting. He didn’t look happy.
So what? Look at all the things that Hillary wiped and no one seemed to care.
Yea, me too.
Checking the wood fiber for a very mini listening device.
Why do people write this juvenile crap?
The Resolute Desk goes back to Queen Victoria as a gift from England to USA. THE Resolute was a British ship that got caught in ice the crew abandoned it an escaped. But eventually it broke free of ice a whaling vessel brought it to port an sent it back to Queen Victoria. After they refurbished it. When the ship was decommissioned Victoria had English cabinet makers make the RESOLUTE DESK an gave it to THE PRESIDENT Rutherford Hayes!
lex
… wiggled his finger around in his nostril and then seemingly wiped the resulting bounty on the famous desk…
One classless screw
I saw Lil X do this live. Cracked me up.
Drill, baby, drill!
What’s a little boogie when Obama had his feet on it and God knows what Bill Clinton did on that desk. Biden probably wiped his butt with his fingers and put some under the drawers. You never know.
After Biden the resolute probably needs an exorcism. 😏
The Resolute Desk has a fascinating story. In the 1800s during the reign of Queen Victoria, the Royal Navy HMS Resolute was found drifting and abandoned in the Arctic. An American ship found it and claimed it as a salvage prize, and had it towed back to the USA.
I believe the president gave it back to Britain. Britain in a gesture of thanks had a desk made from some of its timbers. They gave the desk to the president as a gesture of thanks.
It wasn’t the booger, it was the nano microphones.
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